What is a Thriller?
By definition, a thriller is a novel, play or film with an exciting plot, typically involving crime or espionage.
Thrillers are notoriously known for creating suspense and often mystery through out the films, hence the word 'thrill' being apart of the word.
There many different types of thrillers, these include:
- psychological thrillers
- sci-fi thrillers
action thrillers- horror thrillers
- western thrillers
- adventure thrillers
In recent times the most popular genre of thriller has most obviously been action, as we can see from the IMDb popularity scale of thrillers: - Spectre
- Secret in Their Eyes
- Legend
- The Hunger Games
- Maze Runner
The reason for all these movies (considering they are action/thriller) are on the top of the popularity scale for thrillers is mainly because big companies such as fox who are funding these movies, are able to have much larger production funds. This essentially means they are able to have more expensive scenes (usually including explosions when talking about action) and are also able to fund their movies more. Generally, the younger generation who are the majority of the population who are visiting the cinema, or also usually more into action films.
More established thrillers include:
- Seven
- Psycho
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Oldboy
- Black Swan
- Leon
As we can see from this list of the more established thriller films that much less of them are action and many more are psychological thrillers. In my opinion psychological thrillers have much more of a stronger long-term impact on viewers than action thrillers. Psychological thrillers actually get the viewers thinking and when done correctly are able to draw the viewers into the movie. With action thrillers most of the time the viewer's thinking is done for them and less of a thought process is required as the story line is usually more obvious.
My personal favourite thriller is Fight club directed by David Fincher with a cast who included Brad Pitt, Edward Nortan and Helena Bonham Carter. The movie is about an insomniac office worker, looking for a way to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care soap maker, forming an underground fight club that evolves into something much more.
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